Peron de Basche

Peron de Basche was the French ambassador to the Papal States during the reign of Pope Alexander VI. In 1492, he attended the wedding of Alexander's daughter Lucrezia Borgia to Giovanni Sforza, where he told the Pope that it was unlikely that King Charles VIII of France would be able to embark on a theoretical crusade against the Ottoman Empire. August 1493, he headed to Rome to warn the Pope against any alliance between the Papacy and the Kingdom of Naples ahead of King Charles' invasion of Italy. He threatened the Pope, threatening deposition unless he allowed for the French to invade Italy unmolested.